By Ryan Dombal on January 15, 2009 at 1:10 p.m. EST

There is a thing called the Eurovision Song Contest, a 53-year-old televised European music championship that has crowned winners including ABBA (Sweden, 1974), Celine Dion (Switzerland, 1988) and schlock-rockers Lordi (Finland, 2006). And once upon a time, there was this other thing called Junior Senior, i.e. the odd couple Denmark duo whose 2003 video for "Move Your Feet" still stands as one of the decade's best.

Laursen's song, "Lucky Boy", will premiere at the Danish Eurovision Final on January 31. (I've already got "startlingly upbeat" in Pitchfork's "What Will Jeppe 'Senior' Laursen's Eurovision Song Sound Like?!" office pool, don't worry.) If he wins, he will advance to the finals in Moscow in May. And if he wins that, he will be Denmark's third Eurovision winner ever and the first since the Olsen Brothers took it in 2000 with "Fly on the Wings of Love". (Thanks, Wikipedia!) But let's not get ahead of ourselves here.